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Bombers hit Iraqi Shia mosque
At least eight Iraqis have been killed after two bombers blew themselves up inside a mosque near al-Hilla city, south of Baghdad, while afternoon prayers were under way.
Twelve others were injured in the blast, one of several, on Saturday.
The Ijbala Shia mosque and nearby houses were severely damaged in the attack, an Iraqi journalist, Walid Khalid, told Aljazeera.
Elsewhere in Iraq, a car bomb targeting Iraqi police officers killed four Iraqis, including two children, a police officer and a civilian. Eleven others, including seven police officers, were wounded in the attack in Dora, in southern Baghdad.
In the al-Mashada area, north of Baghdad, an armed group ambushed a 10-vehicle convoy of Interior Ministry police officers, known at the al-Dhib Brigades. The police exchanged fire with the attackers. An unknown number of police were killed and injured, reported Khalid.
British troops dead
Three British soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in the southern town of al-Amarah, a stronghold of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who led an uprising against the US-led forces last year.
UK troops died in a roadside bomb
Two other British soldiers were wounded in the explosion in the town's Hayae al-Risala district, the Defence Ministry said in London.
The deaths brought British losses in Iraq since the 2003 invasion to 92, including accidents and natural causes as well as deaths in action.
Also on Saturday, two US soldiers and three Iraqi troops were injured in a blast caused while they were trying to defuse an explosive device in the al-Dabas district, western Kirkuk.
Convoy targeted
A second Baghdad bomber blew up a car in an attack targeting a passing US military convoy. One civilian was killed, the Interior Ministry said. There was no immediate word on any US casualties.
A third bomber blew himself up in a police station in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul, killing four police officers and wounding 18 more, police General Wathiq Muhammad said.
Just south of the capital, a fourth bomber blew himself up in the Jabala area, when Iraqi police tried to arrest him. The explosion wounded two police officers and four civilians, police said.
Aljazeera + Agencies
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E0670770-D4F6-4563-ABDA-1832EBC3696B.htm
The Ijbala Shia mosque and nearby houses were severely damaged in the attack, an Iraqi journalist, Walid Khalid, told Aljazeera.
Elsewhere in Iraq, a car bomb targeting Iraqi police officers killed four Iraqis, including two children, a police officer and a civilian. Eleven others, including seven police officers, were wounded in the attack in Dora, in southern Baghdad.
In the al-Mashada area, north of Baghdad, an armed group ambushed a 10-vehicle convoy of Interior Ministry police officers, known at the al-Dhib Brigades. The police exchanged fire with the attackers. An unknown number of police were killed and injured, reported Khalid.
British troops dead
Three British soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in the southern town of al-Amarah, a stronghold of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who led an uprising against the US-led forces last year.
UK troops died in a roadside bomb
Two other British soldiers were wounded in the explosion in the town's Hayae al-Risala district, the Defence Ministry said in London.
The deaths brought British losses in Iraq since the 2003 invasion to 92, including accidents and natural causes as well as deaths in action.
Also on Saturday, two US soldiers and three Iraqi troops were injured in a blast caused while they were trying to defuse an explosive device in the al-Dabas district, western Kirkuk.
Convoy targeted
A second Baghdad bomber blew up a car in an attack targeting a passing US military convoy. One civilian was killed, the Interior Ministry said. There was no immediate word on any US casualties.
A third bomber blew himself up in a police station in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul, killing four police officers and wounding 18 more, police General Wathiq Muhammad said.
Just south of the capital, a fourth bomber blew himself up in the Jabala area, when Iraqi police tried to arrest him. The explosion wounded two police officers and four civilians, police said.
Aljazeera + Agencies
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E0670770-D4F6-4563-ABDA-1832EBC3696B.htm
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The explosion on Saturday evening set neighbouring houses on fire and caused serious damage.
Accounts of the bombing were not immediately clear.
The Interior Ministry official said a bomb on a petrol tanker blew up, Reuters reported.
However, Police Captain Muthanna Khaled Ali said an attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body at a gas station, triggering a huge explosion in a fuel tanker, The Associated Press reported.
The blast followed a series of attacks on Friday in which at least 28 people were killed in 12 suicide bombings - the largest number in a single day since 29 April, the day after Ibrahim Jaafari became prime minister.
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Police in Hilla have told the BBC the bomber blew himself up near a mosque. It seems the bomb caused a nearby fuel tanker to explode.
At least another 80 people are said to have been injured.
The blast follows a week of violence in which at least 100 people were killed in 16 suicide attacks in Baghdad.
On Friday alone, 10 suicide bombers blew themselves up in a wave of attacks across the city.
In a statement posted on the internet afterwards, the militant group al-Qaeda in Iraq said their leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had urged them to intensify their attacks.
Earlier on Saturday, three British soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in central Amarah, south-east Iraq.
Mixed town
Musayyib is a mixed town where the majority of the population is Shia.
There have been bombings there in the past, but nothing on this scale, says the BBC's Richard Galpin in Baghdad.
The attacker in Musayyib is thought to have detonated explosives that blew up a petrol tanker near the Shia mosque and a market.
The explosion set neighbouring houses on fire and caused very serious damage, an interior ministry official told the AFP news agency.
The police say there are so many casualties that ambulances are having to take them to hospitals in several neighbouring towns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/4689809.stm